your prompt is Escape or being unable to escape.
no bloody or gorey poems please.
give me a really emotional piece based on the word and meaning of escape.
here are some quotes to kick the muses
"The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. "
Wendell Berry
"It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer."
William Blackstone
"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."
Roland Barthes
go for it
I will judge this later tonight
(I am giving away big points here so give me your best.
prewrites are allowed.
no bloody or gorey poems please.
give me a really emotional piece based on the word and meaning of escape.
here are some quotes to kick the muses
"The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. "
Wendell Berry
"It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer."
William Blackstone
"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."
Roland Barthes
go for it
I will judge this later tonight
(I am giving away big points here so give me your best.
prewrites are allowed.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on January 25
- Rewards: Gold: 600, Silver: 300, Bronze: 150, Honorable mention: 3 people
- Final notes: so many beautiful poems i read each one a thousand times but i have finally picked the poems that just stood out for imagery, originality, and hard hitting words that made the act of escaping easier. well done to all who entered.
Contest Winners
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I look out across the dining room table
Resignation and a weary sighby Himitsu 60 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 24 12:15 AM 2008. In Teenage thinking, Escape, Freewrite, My life, Thoughts, My own style, Teen issues
Silver trophy winner
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Gold trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Honorable mention
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I want to live.
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Runing in circles
Can't find the doorby eternitydemon 18 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 15 1:04 PM. In Contest, Thoughts, Life, My own style, Inspirational, Self• Commented on by judge. -
Button up your lip and don't talk back. Your going to do everything that I ask.by michaeline 8 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 21 2:05 AM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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I want to disapeer some how
Just somehow fade away.by NoOneUnderstands 11 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 13 1:40 PM 2008• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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wow i leave for an hour to do some english work and i have 12 entries already
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maybe i'll enter...
haha...aww no gore?
i dont really write gore anymore, anyways...haha, but i know how to do so...very well.lol -
Thank you for hosting the contest, and for awarding me a HM, Congrats to the other winners also, Josie
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